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Pultenaea skinneri

Pultenaea skinneri
Photo: Geoff Derrin, CC BY-SA 4.0

Pultenaea skinneri, Skinner's pea, is a slender Western Australian shrub of 1 to 2 m with yellow, orange and red pea flowers, grown mainly as a native garden or bushland plant. It needs well-drained, acidic soil and a sunny spot, with the winter-wet habitat it comes from in mind.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then tolerate winter rain and dry summers once established.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or lateritic acidic soil.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates mild frost but protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate

About

Pultenaea skinneri, commonly known as Skinner's pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a slender shrub with simple leaves, and yellow, red and orange flowers with red markings.

Where it grows

Skinner's pea grows in winter-wet depressions in the Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren biogeographic regions in the south-west of Western Australia.

Other Pultenaea plants

Bush Pea · Bristly Bush Pea · Pultenaea adunca · Grafton Bush Pea · Tall Bush Pea · Pultenaea arida · Bearded Bush Pea · Pultenaea aspalathoides · Budawang Bush Pea · Pultenaea barbata · Bentham's Bush Pea · Blakely's Bush Pea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pultenaea skinneri by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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